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Making things
PTsideshow:
To much linear thinking ya know the type "A before B and C etc." if we had a real problem you would have found out fast.
Besides with the subject lines it keeps it's simple for all us retired simple minds. No more heavy thinking!
glen
Weston Bye:
When I started writing I thought that it might serve as a subject of conversation at parties and such. Wrong. To the normal or average person, the concept of making anything (words included) is an incomprehencible concept.
At the NAMES expos I have heard spectators ask "where do you buy the parts to make these things?" -not understanding that the exhibitors actually make the parts.
Where I work, where we manufacture stuff, even the engineers just barely understand making things. Need a prorotype?
Have a meeting. Get the CAD designer to draw a picture.
Have another meeting to review the pictures.
Have the CAD designer make drawings.
Have the purchashing agent send the drawings out for quotes.
Have a meeting to review the quotes.
Order the parts from the machine shop.
Recieve the parts.
Have the metrology dept. measure the parts.
Have an intern assemble the parts.
Etc...
Harrumph! After the first meeting, I just go sketch the part and make it - sometimes the same day, ususally within 2-3 days.
Darren:
I once had the need for a quantity of 25mm od dia bushes 30mm long with a 22m x 1mm internal thread.
Simple enough I thought :scratch:
Nope, the machine shop insisted on me providing CAD drawings..... :doh:
Another example, I was showing my "few" crank bits for Bogs engine to a relative that has been a machinist all his life. Whilst showing him the crankwebs going round and round he stated that he had no idea how an engine worked..... :doh:
He just made parts to drawings......
I didn't think it was possible to me a fully fledged machinist and not know how an engined works....but it seems it is.....
PTsideshow:
--- Quote from: Darren on July 27, 2009, 06:15:37 AM ---Another example, I was showing my "few" crank bits for Bogs engine to a relative that has been a machinist all his life. Whilst showing him the crankwebs going round and round he stated that he had no idea how an engine worked..... :doh:
He just made parts to drawings......
I didn't think it was possible to me a fully fledged machinist and not know how an engined works....but it seems it is.....
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Quite common that people are only aware of their own area of work. One of the electrical engineers that worked with the wife and designed the light system for my truck. Couldn't tell me what was causing the system to operate incorrectly.
And was amazed that I fixed it in only a day and half of troubleshooting. With out any training :doh: ( a life time of study and working on things electrical didn't count) :lol: :lol:
Like I use to tell my kids when they were small, " There are only 3 things I can't do! Raise the Dead! Walk on water! Fix a broken heart! and I'm working on the first two!
I think I found a new sig line :clap: :thumbup: :clap:
glen
Bernd:
--- Quote --- Ohh....I had read all the posts in "whats your location" and about half the fellows gave their location and additionally commented on temperature or some nearby geographical feature and so I thought it was friendly thread and bit of chit chat was welcomed..No huh..? Hmmmmm Okay fine..I'll keep rigidly on topic from now on..But I have to say I feel like I should have been advised of my unwelcome deviation from topic in a personal message rather than making a new post about the whole thing and quoting my post as example to everybody else....
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Alphawolf45,
That was not meant to say you were doing wrong. I just wanted to start an new thread because I saw this as an opportunity to keep a subject going without having to search through the different posts to see were guys lived. I also saw that this subject might get a life of it's own.
I apologize if you took it as a slap in your face. It wasn't meant to be.
Bernd
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